Arthur Eddington Quote

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927) (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9781107663855